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Early elections? The case for and against

Depending on which side of the political fence you’re on, the last four years and four months have either flown by or moved painfully slowly. And while according to law, the next general election is not absolutely due until around the end of November–approximately five years and three months from the last election–word on the […]

Family says locked gate doomed K.H.M.H. patient

We’ll never know if the seriously ill patient brought to the emergency room at the K.H.M.H. early Sunday morning would have survived if his reception had been different. But whatever the answer, no one could say that he didn’t deserve the chance. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the latest disturbing controversy at the nation’s […]

4 Mexicans arrested for illegal fishing

Illegal fishing is back in the news tonight as police on Monday evening intercepted a twenty-five foot skiff with four Mexicans aboard who are suspected of illegally catching conch in Belizean waters. The boat was intercepted near Bacalar Chico at the northern end of Ambergris Caye and contained ten sacks of cleaned conch weighing around […]

Visiting doctors offer reconstructive surgery

A team of medical experts will be arriving this weekend to perform reconstructive surgery on those Belizean children who are in need of such treatment. The ten member group, working through Belize’s Friends of Paediatrics, Ministry of Health and the International Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Virginia, will be working all next week at the Southern […]

Visiting artist creates unique snapshots

Visitors to Belize, whether they arrive by plane, car, bus or cruise ship, number in the hundreds of thousands each year. While most leave with pleasant memories, very few have the talent to record those memories with the tools of an artist. Today I was given a glimpse of some very precious snapshots made with […]

English biker circles globe for charity

Belize is not an unusual stop for members of that growing fraternity of people bent on circling the globe–whether by car, plane, boat, bike or foot. But every one of these individually driven travellers has a different story to tell…and today News 5’s Marion Ali sat down to hear one more. Marion Ali, Reporting For […]